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archnemesis

03-29-2010 01:39 AM

copy range of files in directory?

I want to know how to copy a range of files from one directory to another . For example say I list the contents of a directory, how would i copy files 5-15 to another directory?

Sayan Acharjee

03-29-2010 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by archnemesis (Post 3916266)

I want to know how to copy a range of files from one directory to another . For example say I list the contents of a directory, how would i copy files 5-15 to another directory?

You can use wildcards to copy some specific files, like you can use the follwing command to copy all the files that start with the letter 's':

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cp s* destination

To copy all the doc files you can use:

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cp *.doc destination

PMP	03-29-2010 02:15 AM

Code:

ls -1 | sed -n '5,15p' | xargs -i cp {} <destination_directory>

archnemesis

03-29-2010 04:59 AM

thanks guys!

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